CVE-2026-22721: VMware Aria Operations

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VMware Aria Operations contains a privilege escalation vulnerability. A malicious actor with privileges in vCenter to access Aria Operations may leverage this vulnerability to obtain administrative access in VMware Aria Operations. To remediate CVE-2026-22721, apply the patches listed in the 'Fixed Version' column of the 'Response Matrix' found in  VMSA-2026-0001 https://support.broadcom.com/web/ecx/support-content-notification/-/external/content/SecurityAdvisories/0/36947 .

Affected products

• VMware Aria Operations: from 8.0, before 8.18.6 (fixed in 8.18.6)
• VMware Cloud Foundation: from 4.0, before 5.2.3 (fixed in 5.2.3); from 9.0, before 9.0.2.0 (fixed in 9.0.2.0)
• VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure: from 2.2, up to and including 3.0
• VMware Telco Cloud Platform: from 4.0, up to and including 5.1

Published 2026-02-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.